"o you are a music teacher and you want to have access to some productive apps to help you teach music using your iPad. Well you have landed in the right place, Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has just finished curating a list of some of the best music teaching and learning apps. We have checked several resources and included only what we think has some educational value, we know there are several other music apps scattered all over iTunes market but it is really hard to find those ones that can be recommended for teachers and students. Check out the list below and if you have other resources or you know of other educational music apps , please share them with us in the comment below."

"Ian Boynton is a music teacher for the Redford Union School District near Detroit. He received his masters in educational technology from Central Michigan University, and has been embracing technology in his music classes ever since becoming a teacher 12 years ago."

There are some useful tips in here. 1. the idea that students explore instruments before they are taught how to play them. 2. the use of graphical score maps to visualise the sound. 3. the use of composition early and used with multimedia

Gadgetry and Musicality: Technology enhancing music education provides an interesting use of technology not just specific to music technology but the use of the "Piano Scroll" format provides students with a visual way to interpret sound and time outside of reading sheet music with a metronome.

Boyntons' classroom like many of those closer to home in Australia was faced with financial implications that restricted his ability to effectively implement these software’s and use them to their full potential. At times he found himself having to use his own personal iPad for students to the software in the classroom.

These technologies have the potential to completely redefine learning experiences in classroom music. Boyntons' "Piano Scroll" method of reading music allows those students who have trouble comprehending notated music along with those who learn by ear a resource to learn how to read and record music. This method if utilised addresses the Modification and Redefinition levels of the SAMR model (Schrock, 2013)

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I haven't blogged about our iPad journey for a while, so I thought I'd update how it's going, and impart a few of the lessons I've learnt the hard way! Forgive the length of the post, but I thought it was time to get into the nitty-gritty of the learning which occurs when iPads are used so you can follow my thinking, and improve on what I'm doing (and hopefully suggest those improvements to me in a comment at the bottom? Who knows?). And I'll chuck in some cartoons to alleviate the boredom too, how about that?

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by Greg Kulowiec"If you have been following my blog at all, you likely have read a few posts about app-smashing. I thought I should make a helpful guide for other educators and students interested in experimenting with this concept. Below is my app-smashing app-pack, the key tools that I use to create my multimedia app-smashes. Please click on any of the app icons below to learn how I use the tool and watch a video tutorial (if possible)."Enjoy & smash on!"Jim Lerman's insight:Click on image above to go to a live thinglink for 12 of Kulowiec's favorite app-smashing tools.
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